The basics are: crayons and skidd oil. I like grease based crayons (the old fashioned ones...) because they can blend very easily, plastic based crayons are not so blendable and I don´t like much the final result. The oil is from IKEA, it´s to waterproof wood butcher tables, you´ll find where the kitchen stuff is.

now is the fun part: take a blending stump, moisten its tip with the oil (I use a small cup to pour a bit of the oil from the large bottle). Make sure your stump is not too full of oil, if it is then rub it on a scrap of paper to dry it a bit. Rub your stump over the flowers and you will see how the colors start to blend ♥ in the picture below the upper flower is not blended yet (click on it to make it larger and see the details)

Now it´s time to make a card with it! I took papers from my stash and followed a sketch I liked. The sentiment is a silicon sticker I had for AGES (it´s been on my stash of stickers like 9 years? omg!!!) ... I die cut the image and placed it on the card with foam tape. At the very end I added a few dots of pearled paint.

I used two different papers: patterned paper and cardstock (as the green/light blue you see on the finished box). Your template will be a dessert plate, mine is 7.5 in diameter. Cut one circles one each paper. The patterned paper is optional but it looks so beautiful I highly recommend it ☺

Now cut a square of 3 in x 3 in from printer paper and place it on the center, you don´t have to be perfect here! score by the sides of the square across the circle. Now take a cutting tool or scissors and cut at the black lines I have drawn on the picture below. Now fold the paper at the red lines and around the square (that will be the base of the box).

Now is time to assemble your box! put some double sided tape on the "ears" and stick them on the inside as you see on the picture below. Repeat with all four ears on the patterned paper and on the cardstock.

You will end up with two boxes. Take a bit of double sided tape and place it on the inside of the patterned paper box, and place the cardstock box inside. And that´s it!
It´s more difficult to explain it in words than doing it.... You can use it also as a nice little gift holder, I made one of these cute boxes and filled them with small craft goodies for a dear friend. Hope you like it!!

The image is a digital stamp from Beccy´s place that I colored it with my beloved colored pencils and rounded the corners before placing it on the card. I dry emboss the cardstock and highlight the design by rubbing it with a white inks pad. The sentiment is made with some old rubber stamps I have in my stash onto light pink fiber paper. A few sequins and you have a very pretty card!

I made a card several weeks ago where I die cut a piece, here. That piece couldn´t go to the paper bin, it was too pretty! I took a sticker, a couple of feather and a stamp with a nice sentiment (from Latina Crafter)... and voila!

Now is time to add some little embellishments as rhinestones, sequins and dew drops. I kept them simple thinking they could be good card for males too. The patterned papers are from Prima Marketing: Botanical collection, beautiful!